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Here's the next two chapters, in which a fair bit happens!

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Chapter Ten ( Read more... )

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Current Location: office
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selenak

Darth Real Life continues to cut down on my internet time, but it does exist. Thus:

Star City 1.04: In which the show keeps surprising me by the rapid pace it puts its intrigues under. ( Spoilers now also include a female Indian scientist among their cast. )

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Current Location: Munich

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Name: Valerie

Age: 40s

I mostly post about: daily life, eating disorder recovery, complicated life, some fandom posts, movie posts, ADIML, AMAs, my health, my family, friends, ect.

My hobbies are: tv, movies, art, bullet journaling, writing, Pilates, nature walks, outdoorsy stuff, animals, gratitude journaling, gemstones re: properties and benefits, reading, listening to music, looking for music and movie recs, my pets, hanging out with friends, crafting, horror, skincare, makeup, photography, etc.

My fandoms are: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Shadow & Bone (Grishaverse), The Hunger Games franchise, MARVEL studios, Studio Ghibli, Sailor Moon, Jurassic Park, Divergent, Scream franchise, Taylor Swift, Special Ops: Lioness, Fringe, Stranger Things, Anne Boleyn, It: Welcome to Derry, Untamed, Card Captor Sakura, Battlestar Galactica, Ready or Not (1 & 2), Disney OG, Katherine Pierce (TVD), Nina Dobrev, Elle Fanning, Ben Barnes, etc.

I'm looking to meet people who:have things in common or don't. I like lasting friendships. We don't have to talk everyday/post but I do like comments just like I'll comment on your posts

My posting schedule tends to be: very sporadic. But I'm working on this and would like to post once a week.

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: 2slgbtqia+ phobia, racism, antisemitism, fatphobia, close-mindedness, jerks, rudeness, making everything a competition, propaganda, politics all the time, anti-feminism, extreme zionists and anti-semites, red flags. If you're expecting happy-go-lucky posts all the time, I'm not for you.

Before adding me, you should know: I may be or seem really unapproachable but I'm a kind person looking for new friends that'll be active for me and I them. Also, I'm open to 16 + just know that I post a lot of adult only things so if you are a minor acknowledge that and let me know so I can decide from there.

Current Mood: excited
Current Location: My home
Current Music: Freya Ridings - Wicker Woman

silveradept

We must begin with the regrettable news of The death of Anthony Head, best known to children of the 90s in Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Giles, and to the children of this era for his role in Ted Lasso as Rupert Mannion, at 72 years of age. (And also many other roles, but for the US audience, those two are the ones that come to mind immediately.) And also, the death of Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, at 56 years of age. Persepolis was one of those books endlessly recommended for a look of what it was like to be a women in Iran before and during the revolution that put the current hard-line government in charge. And also, Jane Yolen, a children's author with more than 450 books to her name, and therefore likely, you've read one of her books, passing onward at 87 years of age.

Neither the French horn nor the English horn are properly named, but instead are the result of misconceptions and translations of those misconceptions.

When someone wants to talk about trans people in UK media, they're four times more likely to mention a cisgender woman with a massive fortune and an equally large hatred of trans people than they are actual trans people. And even more so likely to mention politicians and negative attitudes than actual trans people and their issues. Although, sometimes, you have good stories from the people who aren't the actual trans people, like when the trade unions showed up to help make sure that Durham Pride was able to continue after the anti-queer government pulled their funding. Or Disability Rights UK showing up for trans people and criticizing the EHRC guidance.

Why do they have to reference TERFs? Because most people don't find the idea of trans women in women's spaces threatening, so they can't find anyone but TERFs who want to talk about it to the media.

If you want people to have better sex (and quite likely more of it), the best thing you can do for them is give them a universal basic income. Because people who aren't stressed about money issues often have time to do things they enjoy doing, which is often sex. And so is art. And so many other things that make our lives better.

Governments stop using the vague threat of children being online to force everyone to submit to the surveillance state. Difficulty: impossible. Because they keep doing it. The UK, for example, intends to ban anyone under 16 from having access to any social media at all, on the belief that it will somehow make their childhoods less fraught and less dangerous. (They're not, however, banning messaging apps or online gaming spaces, because they don't understand where things like radicalization and bullying happen, and therefore have no idea what they would have to ban to properly keep kids away from potential harm, as they claim to want.)

( The usual that you have come to expect, and possibly appreciate, inside )

Last out, DistroSea, which offers VNC connections so that someone can test drive a Linux distribution before making a decision to install it. I like this idea. It's certainly more accessible than downloading and imaging a thumb drive repeatedly to decide whether something is worth sticking with. And with this available to people, it might be a really good way for someone to try a Linux system and see if they like it, without having to dedicate space and time to it other than a web browser. (You can at least get a feel for what it's like, and to see how similar and different it is than a Windows or a macOS desktop.

And also, Some very good designs for Michigan's "I Voted" sticker contest. ("I voted, now let me sleep" is the one I like the most.)

(Materials via

adrian_turtle,

azurelunatic,

boxofdelights,

cmcmck,

conuly,

cosmolinguist,

elf,

finch,

firecat,

jadelennox,

jenett,

jjhunter,

kaberett,

lilysea,

oursin,

rydra_wong,

snowynight,

sonia,

the_future_modernes,

thewayne,

umadoshi,

vass, the

meta_warehouse community,

little_details, and anyone else I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Music: HUNTR/X - How It's Done

apod_feed

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260615.html

What's happening to this Sun-crossing rocket?

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260615.html

twistedchick

On the benefits of wearing earplugs, especially at concerts as well as loud workplaces.

ysabetwordsmith

Fansites and encouraging interaction

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makeashrine

I'd like to hear some opinions, experiences, and ideas on the topic of encouraging interaction with our fansites and collectives.

This seems like an interesting discussion.

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pivot_to_ai_feed

Posted by David Gerard

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/15/google-found-liable-for-defamatory-ai-overviews/

https://pivot-to-ai.com/?p=8248

Google’s AI overviews are accurate 91% of the time! Which means 9% of the time, the AI is just making stuff up. [NYT, archive]

That’s not good enough when the AI hallucinates that someone’s a crook.

Two publishing houses in Munich sued Google for defamation when the AI overview made out they were involved in scams, subscription traps, and other dodgy business.

The companies sent cease-and-desist letters, but Google didn’t do anything about the false statements. So the companies took Google to court — and they won. [Decoder, in German; ruling, in German, PDF, archive]

Germany has case law that plain search results with text snippets, even tab autocomplete suggestions, are not defamatory if they’re just presenting what web pages say.

But the AI summary isn’t doing that — it’s a synthesis that Google generated and published.

One key point was that the AI overview contained statements that weren’t in the cited sources at all.

The judge also said the AI overview is in no way necessary to search results. The AI overview is an extra thing Google put on top. So that’s another way the AI is not covered by the search engine exemption.

AI output doesn’t even get protection as freedom of speech — because it’s not a person writing, it’s just output from an algorithm.

The judgement applies across Germany.

The publishing companies won most of their case — so Google pays 80% of costs and the companies pay 10% each. Google said it would be appealing the ruling. [DW]

Video — Podcast

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/15/google-found-liable-for-defamatory-ai-overviews/

https://pivot-to-ai.com/?p=8248

ysabetwordsmith

Glowworms turn cave ceilings into underground starscapes

In places sunlight never reaches, life still finds ways to produce light. Inside caves, beneath forests and across humid, hidden landscapes, tiny organisms emit an otherworldly glow that seems almost impossible. These creatures are known as glowworms. But this simple name hides a surprising level of biological diversity.

The term “glowworm” does not refer to a single species. It is a common name applied to several unrelated organisms that independently evolved bioluminescence. What connects them is not their ancestry, but the visual effect they create. These scattered points of living light make dark spaces appear stunningly celestial.

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conuly

Would you like to throw a stone at me?
Here, take all that’s left of my peach.

Blood-red, deep:
Heaven knows how it came to pass.
Somebody’s pound of flesh rendered up.

Wrinkled with secrets
And hard with the intention to keep them.

Why, from silvery peach-bloom,
From that shallow-silvery wine-glass on a short stem
This rolling, dropping, heavy globule?

I am thinking, of course, of the peach before I ate it.

Why so velvety, why so voluptuous heavy?
Why hanging with such inordinate weight?
Why so indented?

Why the groove?
Why the lovely, bivalve roundnesses?
Why the ripple down the sphere?
Why the suggestion of incision?

Why was not my peach round and finished like a billiard ball?
It would have been if man had made it.
Though I’ve eaten it now.

But it wasn’t round and finished like a billiard ball;
And because I say so, you would like to throw something at me.

Here, you can have my peach stone.

- San Gervasio

**************

Link

ysabetwordsmith

French Polynesia Protects Biodiverse Ocean Area Twice the Size of Arizona Teeming with Life

The French Polynesian government recently announced it will fully protect 200,000 square miles of ocean, an area about twice as large as Arizona that’s teeming with ocean life.

Located near the Austral, Marquesas, and Western Society islands, this new marine preserve, called the Te Tai Nui a Hau Marine Protected Area, will take the total of the nation’s conserved ocean territory to around 540,500 square miles—twice the size of Texas.

Last year, French Polynesia fully protected a total of approximately 350,000 square miles around the Gambier and Society islands, while also designating several thousand miles of artisanal fishing zones.

Yay, progress! :D

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senmut

In honor of Boots' 2nd gotcha day, what are the names of some cats you have had?

Thom(as), (Missy) Uno, Simon, Snowball who became Sammy, Pooh Bear, Pollux, I-Chaya who became Gizmo, (Chester) Bu(bastis), (Alexandria) Chi(cago), Memphis (Jones), (Thumbsy) Thebes, (Cairo-)Glyph, Turtle, Mischa, Denali, Evie, Boots.

I think that is all the named cats I have had the pleasure of sharing part of my life with. Renames were rehomes.

watersword

Work has been very quiet for the past couple of weeks and then today was a pain of trying to work with some code that no one has touched in a year and no longer works out of the box, and debugging it took me most of the day.

Once I had done what I could there, I went to the gym and never really settled into a rhythm on the treadmill. The Smartypants premiere episode did not really hold my attention, alas, hopefully tonight's Game Changer episode will keep me going next time. So I walked down to the mall, tried on some sandals, failed to find a pair that was both reasonably cute and reasonably comfortable, and stopped by the Japanese grocery. Tonight is the monthly meeting of the neighborhood association board, which I liase with as a board member for the Park Friends. Mostly that is people trying their best to care for the neighborhood, with a garnish of NIMBY, fingers crossed that proportion stays bearable.

I just have to get to Wednesday afternoon and I will be in Maine for three days, the weather is predicted to be mediocre so I will bring a lot of books, but I need a break oh my godddd.

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WIP Big Bang & WIP Reverse Bang Check-In #2 is live! Please remember that all four check-ins are not mandatory so if you do not do it or you accidentally miss one of them, it's totally fine. This form is used for both WIPBB and WIPRB, so please fill it in once for each project you are completing for either Bang. You should be using a different unique check-in ID for each project if you are completing multiple projects, so if that's not the case send an email to the mod email account (wipbigbang@gmail.com) with check-in ID substitutions you may need and then do the check-ins with the new IDs you want to use. If you plan to drop out, DO NOT fill out the form for those projects and instead send an email about which projects you want to drop to wipbigbang@gmail.com.

https://forms.gle/y4DcGDb83xeUTCJVA

james_davis_nicoll

The two "Talking to the Sun" books were published in the 2020s. That's the common theme.

Now I have a catch all of books I read as a teen, books from the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, and the 2020s.

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delphi

Fandom 50 #18

Look, sometimes all there is to say is "This was extremely formative to me in my early adolescence, and I think you can all tell why."

I also distinctly remember that when I bought this album, my older sister—then in high school, very attached to her identity as a prep—informed me that if I kept listening to this kind of stuff, people would think I was a skid. By the time I was her age, I had a shaved head and a face full of metal, and my wardrobe was 95% black and 5% safety pins, so she wasn't wrong. Happily, by that point, no one I knew said "skid" anymore. Or "prep" for that matter.

Push by Moist

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Sidetracks is a collaborative project featuring various essays, videos, reviews, or other Internet content that we want to share. All past and current links for the Sidetracks project can be found in our Sidetracks tag. You can also support Sidetracks and our other work on Patreon.

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ysabetwordsmith

National Pollinator Week is June 15-21. In most places, this is a poor time of year to plant a pollinator garden. However, many summer flowers are blooming, so it's a great time to visit pollinator gardens or other wildlife sites in your area to look for pollinators. You could also collect seeds that have set from spring-flowering plants, many of which will be ripe by now.

6 WAYS TO CELEBRATE NATIONAL POLLINATOR WEEK

7 Things You Can Do for Pollinators

Encourages Pollinator Protection Every Day

Pollinator Week

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